1. If you always wanted to learn but never found a teacher or time to commit yourself, now is a great time to start.
2. If you do not like driving. This course is taken online. No need to find parking, commuting or even change your pajamas.
3. You tried learning on your own but have a lot of questions and get lost occasionally.
4. You are great at reading vowels but get all confused when it comes to dependent vowels.
5. You are simply eager to learn.

Requirement: You are at the right place. Interactive online Hindi classes for adults are currently in session. We start new groups when we have a minimum of 2 students at almost the same level. If you have another friend who might be interested in learning Hindi, I would be happy to set up a 30 minute free trial class for both of you. You would need a skype id to be a part of the session and we will use an online classroom by acrobat.com. The class set-up is extremely simple. Send us your skype id and I will send you the link for the online classroom.

Trial Classes are held every 1st and 3rd Monday at 8.30 pm PST.

We teach Reading, Writing, and Conversational Hindi.

Headset Required: For all online classes, we request that each participant to use a headset. This is very important because

For students interested in scheduling a 1:many on-line/in-person classes .

Small Class Size: 6 students per class.

Duration: Basic Conversational course is for 12 weeks consisting of 1.5hr. on-line learning as well as H.W and quizzes for students to work on during the week.

Intermediate Conversational course is for 14 weeks consisting of 1.5 hr. on-line learning as well as H.W and quizzes for students to work on during the week.

When: Each session starts after receiving 6 requests. e-mail me and I will let you know approx. when your group starts.

Time: I schedule classes at mutually convenient time for my students. On-line classes are mostly held Friday and Sunday evenings between 6.00 and 10.00pm. Few weekday evening classes are also available.

Price: You get 18 hrs. of teaching with H.W and quizzes with each class to hone your newly learnt conversational skills as well as to practice new vocabulary. Price $200 for 12 week course. This is promotional New Year price.

Just as These and Those take “are” in a senence eg. These are tables. These are boys. These books are good. Those chairs are white. Similarly in Hindi “hai^” takes place of “are”.

Let’s try some sentences

Vocabulary words:

houses:ghar apples: seb friends: dost

tables: meze^ fruits: phal kyaa: what

where: kahaa^ big: baRaa

Sentences with “these” “ye”

These are houses. ye ghar hai^. ये घर हैं|

These are apples. ye seb hai^. ये सेब हैं|

What are these? Ye kyaa hai^? ये क्या हैं?

Where are these? ye kahaa^ hai^? ये कहाँ हैं?

Are these fruits? kyaa ye phal hai^? क्या ये फल हैं?

Senetences with “those” “ve”

Those are friends. ve dost hai^. वे दोस्त हैं

Those are apples. ve seb hai^. वे सेब हैं

What are those? ve kyaa hai^? वे क्या हैं

Where are those? ve kahaa^ hai^? वे कहाँ हैं?

Are those big? ve baRe hai^. क्या वे बड़े हैं

Pronunciation tip: ‘ve’ is often pronounced as “vo” for colloquial purposes (never in writing). This does not mean pronouncing ‘Those’ as ve is incorrect, of course ‘ve’ is the correct pronunciation. Generally people pick “vo” when saying ‘that’ and ‘those’ in Hindi. My point is if you hear ‘vo’ when you expected ‘ve’ don’t dwell on it.

This is our second grammar lesson to form sentences with structure : you are…..

Hindi distinguishes pronoun “you” by classifying it into three categories.

a) you = tuu = तू is used for when you are intimate with a person and also when you want to be rude to the other person! Sounds strange, right? (piece of advise: stay away from using it) You must have heard it many times if you are into watching Bollywood movies. There is exchanged many times between the actor and actress. Ofcourse the director is showing the intimate, close relationship between the actor and actress. Another place you will recognise is in romantic Bollywood songs.

b) you = tum = तुम is used for people who are familiar to you (eg:friends, children)

c) you = aap = आप use aap when you want to show respect. (parents, strangers). Also to show politeness.

Now that hopefully we are clear about three ways to say “you” in Hindi let’s talk about what shape “are” takes with these pronouns.

Similarly try different sentences with you (tum and aap). Practice sentences with similar structure as “You are _____. ” Feel free to substitue the blank with any noun or adjective.

Look out for my next lesson. If you like what you see, leave a comment for me. Thanks!

PS: My next adults workshops is going to start soon on Wednesday evenings in Artesia (90701). I have 2 spots left. If you are interested e-mail me or leave a comment. info at: http://www.ilearnhindi.org